ACLEA Awards Presented to CLEBC and Law Society
The Association for Continuing Legal Education, an association of North American and international CLE organizations, recently presented several prestigious “ACLEA’s Best” awards to CLEBC and the Law Society of British Columbia.

The CLEBC book Advising British Columbia Businesses won the 2007 Award for Professional Excellence in the Publications category. Advising British Columbia Businesses covers all stages of advising a business, from a first meeting with a client who has a new business, through to the point just before a company goes public. The 2007 Award for Professional Excellence in the Technology category went to the Law Society for its Small Firm Practice Course. This self-paced course is primarily designed for lawyers transitioning into sole or small firm practice and is delivered over the Internet in manageable learning modules.

Construction Law Jeopardy, a CLEBC course presented in February 2007, received a 2007 Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Programming category. Construction Law Jeopardy departed from traditional CLE delivery style in adopting a “Jeopardy” game show format that required speakers to provide focused commentary on legal issues in a minimal amount of time.

Left to right: Kensi Gounden, Law Society, Jack Huberman, CLE Executive Director,
Ray Ruppert, ACLEA President, and Rob Seto, CLE Program Lawyer,
after presentation of awards at the recent ACLEA conference.

This article was published in the October 2007 issue of BarTalk and is subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2007, all rights reserved.